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The election of Common Councilmen for time ensuing year took place on Saturday. In some of the wards there were contests, but generally- the proceedings excited little interest. Mr. Samuel Wells, after many failures, has succeeded in the ward of Farringdon Without.
Mr. En-art has declined the invitation to become a candidate for Marylehnee pI.:,tling an engagement with the Liberals of the Dumfries district of Ian cueles We ventured to anticipate that this would be Mr. Ewares predei4 ; and until the Reformers in Marylebone can
present then; an united body, they will have difficulty in pro-
curing any lalseell candidate of mark to go to the poll with Sir Ben- jamin Hull.
Sir Beejesnin Hall, in a letter to the :horning Po,t, has contradicted the report or his intention to resign his seat for Marylehone, and to offer himself as a candidate for Monmouthshire. Sir Benjamin says, whenever a dissolution of Parliament. takes place, he will again solicit the suffrages of the e.taryleboue constituency.
A meet;ee of persons calling themselves Delegates to the Conven- tion of the 'Working Classes, was held on Tuesday at the Arundel Cofthe- house, in the Strand. On the suggestion of Mr. Benyowski, the Pole, who said he represented the working men of the Tower Hamlets, it was agreed to issue " an appeal to the People of the United Kingdom in favour of the unfortunate and respected John Frost."
The increased consumption of opium was the subject of discussion at a meeti.ig of the Westminster Medical Society on Saturday last. Dr. J. Johnson stated from his own personal knowledge, that opium-eating had incre;:svd in this country to such an extent as to have become nearly emelt in its proportion with tee-totalism. Indeed, the subject
had called the particular attention of the different insurance-offices, who were about to lipid a meeting, in consequence of their having dis- covered that they bad sustained considerable loss from, as well as that a new risk had been created by the enormous increase of the consump- tion of oeintu. In future policies, of course, the risk could be provided for by the eliiirge of an additional premium ; but as such a course of chalet: had not been anticipated on policies already effected, the matter had assumed a somewhat serious aspect. Several gentlemen bore testi- mony to the ffital results to which the practice invariably led.
About thirty thousand poor persons, and prisoners in the different gaols of the Metropolis, were regaled on Christmas-day with meat, vegetables, beer, anti tea.
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